by mcl | Oct 3, 2013 | Chewed Petunias, Columns, Relationships
By SUSAN E. RICHARDSON “If I say, ‘Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,’ even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you,” (Psalm 139:11-12). We usually look at light and...
by mcl | Sep 2, 2013 | Chewed Petunias, Columns, Relationships
By SUSAN E. RICHARDSON “Rebellion is as bad as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as bad as worshiping idols,” (1 Samuel 15:23). “Of course, we don’t have problems with idolatry these days, right?” Ken was up to his usual teaching style...
by mcl | Jul 1, 2013 | Chewed Petunias, Columns, Relationships
By SUSAN E. RICHARDSON “Look at the nations and watch—and be utterly amazed. For I am going to do something in your days that you would not believe, even if you were told,” (Habakkuk 1:5). “Why?” is one of the most fundamental questions we humans have....
by mcl | Jun 1, 2013 | Chewed Petunias, Columns, Relationships
By Susan E.Richardson “He tends his flock like a shepherd: He gathers the lambs in his arms and carries them close to his heart; he gently leads those that have young,” (Isaiah 40:11). “I am the good shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep know me—just as...
by mcl | May 6, 2013 | Chewed Petunias, Columns, Relationships
By SUSAN E. RICHARDSON “I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have...
by mcl | Apr 5, 2013 | Chewed Petunias, Columns, Relationships
by Susan E. Richardson …so I say, “My endurance has perished; so has my hope from the LORD.” Remember my affliction and my wanderings, the wormwood and the gall! My soul continually remembers it and is bowed down within me. But this I call to mind, and...